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My parents were both students at the University of Illinois. Apparently, I attended class as an infant.
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Moved to Massachusetts when my father took a job at Milton-Bradley
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My younger sister was born. I thought that she was rather noisy. Some things remain unchanged.
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Moved to Tennessee when my dad got a job with Magnavox.
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Moved to Oregon when my father got a job at Intel.
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Graduated from Beaverton High School in Oregon
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Graduated with a B.S. from Cornell
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Took in a macaw from friends of the family. She says, "Hello" and "How are you?".
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Graduated with a Ph.D from Oxford. My research was on the population biology of invasive Rose-ringed Parakeets
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Taught at Sewanee, a small, private liberal-arts college in Tennessee for a year. My first child was born.
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Started teaching in the Biology department at UCO
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Welcomed my second child into the world.
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CaSTLE trip to England, Belgium, the Netherlands
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Took Tropical Field Bio class to Belize
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Spent 2016-17 on a Fulbright sabbatical in Botswana